Russ George wrote:
Whoa indeed, nanoseconds are way to slow for fission!
So what? Who needs fission when you can achieve complete nuclear disintegration - as Holmlid claims to do with a small laser.
With fission of U, the energy release per nucleon is in the range of 200MeV. With laser implosion of UDD, the energy available is 2 GeV. Given that the mass of the U is 120 times more to start with but the energy release of fission is 10 times less, there is a great advantage to the Holmlid effect. The energy density favors UDD by three orders of magnitude but it is not a direct competition. Muons are weakly interacting, but this is not important, since in the big picture - we already have overkill with our fission/fusion arsenal. That arsenal will not be replaced. It is a sunk cost.
The use of LENR as a weapon will probably emerge in other novel ways which are not even considered now - on the small scale instead of the large. A laser pointer engineered to ignite a milligram of UDD - that is the nature of the new threat. It can be delivered by drone.
